Walid Al Habboul
Co-Founder & CTO at XO Market
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWalid Al Habboul is a seasoned blockchain engineer and technology leader with 14 years of software experience, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of XO Market in Vancouver. He has been building web3 systems since 2017, progressing from hands-on blockchain roles to leadership positions including Head of Solidity Engineering and Principal Blockchain Engineer at Parallel Network. Walid blends enterprise-grade engineering experience from Amazon with deep protocol-level expertise gained at startups and consultancies like Puffer Labs and Cega, making him adept at both scalable backend systems and smart contract architecture. He has a solid academic foundation in computer science and engineering from institutions across Syria and Canada, and a track record of moving from implementation to team leadership in under a decade. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into early-stage crypto projects to establish robust engineering practices and shipping production-ready web3 products.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology Engineering at Damascus UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Transfered)Computer Science, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (14)
nft10
react8
ethereum8
solidity7
smart-contracts6
staking6
blockchain6
fuel2
crowdfunding2
typescript2
connected1
ecosystem1
cosmwasm1
foundation1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raystation/animate.css
Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 months
cross-browseranimationbrowserbrowser-librarycss
SportNow/sport-now
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 month
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